Republic TV And Arnab Goswami's Plea Against Mumbai Police's FIR In TRP Scam: Live Updates From Bombay High Court [Day 2]

Sharmeen Hakim

17 March 2021 5:35 AM GMT

  • Republic TV And Arnab Goswamis Plea Against Mumbai Polices FIR In TRP Scam: Live Updates From Bombay High Court [Day 2]

    Bombay High Court has resumed hearing on petition filed by Republic TV And Arnab Goswami challenging Bombay Police's FIR/Charge-sheet in the TRP...

    Bombay High Court has resumed hearing on petition filed by Republic TV And Arnab Goswami challenging Bombay Police's FIR/Charge-sheet in the TRP Case.


    Live Updates

    • 17 March 2021 6:44 AM GMT

      Mundargi - All this is inadmissible material. The statement names Republic but also the other three channels, Mundargi says.

      J Shinde asks SPP Hirey to take instructions on how much time is required to complete the investigation.

    • 17 March 2021 6:39 AM GMT

      Mundargi now begins to point out from two accused statements, taken while they were in custody.

      One of them is a distributor, Bompalli Rao Mistry. He was arrested with Ved Bhandari.

    • 17 March 2021 6:35 AM GMT

      Mundargi was referring to Tejal Solanki's statement from the charge sheet which names another channel

    • 17 March 2021 6:33 AM GMT

      Mundargi - Evidence has to be qualitative, not quantitative. 

    • 17 March 2021 6:31 AM GMT

      J Pitale - So they are not going after the channels who are named?

      Mundargi- In fact, today they are saying there is nothing against the other channel.

    • 17 March 2021 6:24 AM GMT

      The statement speaks about how they spotted discrepancies and began their investigation.

    • 17 March 2021 6:18 AM GMT

      Mundargi refers to the statement of the Assistant Vice President of BARC from the charge sheet

    • 17 March 2021 6:17 AM GMT

      Mundargi continues his submission. Asserts that the Mumbai Police got the analytical report first in December and not before that. 

    • 17 March 2021 6:16 AM GMT

      SPP - BARC itself said that their industry is worth 31,000 crores. They have now started quantifying their losses

    • 17 March 2021 6:16 AM GMT

      SPP - We were not investigating the news channel, we were investigating the entire scam.

      But wasn't there quantifying of the scam?

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